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BUSINESS

AT SELKIRK COLLEGE

New program helps apprentices

For individuals who have completed vocational trades
training the transition from school to an apprenticeship
position is, nowadays, often a matter of chance, with the
odds weighted against the candidate, according to Selkirk
College.

The college says in a press release that in an attempt to
even the odds, it has implemented a practical training
program that allowed vocational trades training graduates
to acquire further training that may be credited toward an
apprenticéship by the Ministry of Labor.

In September 1984 the college received $85,000 in
federal government funding to inaugurate a pilot project
that would provide continued training for 60 Training
Access (TRAC) graduates.

The project was funded for six months and would
premit two groups of 30 TRAC graduates to attend a
three-month simulated work project on Selkirk College's
Rosemont Campus.

“While each group of graduates was in training they
were treated as if they held a regular job,” says the release.

“They were scheduled to work a normal week, punched
a timeclock and went about their training the way they
would in any industrial job setting.

“The jobs were performed, for the most part, on some
rather unique training aids developed by the college.”

Dan Bradford, millwright instructor on the Rosemont
Campus, has served as project since its

residential electrician I'd learn a lot about loomex and
garage-door openers, but this program has me interfacing
computer controls. with industrial processing plants.”

Along with training on the college's automated sand
line, participants were assigned jobs contracted with the
college by private sector businesses.

In the past six months students have reconditioned a
rock crusher, installed a computer control system on the
automated sand line, rebuilt a commercial butter wrapping
machine and begun the restoration of a massive log
debarker.

The debarker, a gift to the college from Evans Forest
Products in Golden, is the first component of an automated
saw line that is being assembled on the Rosemont Campus to
serve as a training aid to Millwright students. Eventually
the saw line will be capable of producing dimensional
lumber out of raw logs, from debarker to planer.

Participants in the simulated after-TRAC project have
also played a big role in the college's fire engine retrofit
project.

Used fire equipment is acquired by the college,
reconditioned, re-certified by the Fire Underwriters
Association and sold to small community or rural fire
protection districts at great savings over the cost of
acquiring new equipment. At the same time, students
enrolled in Welding, Heavy Duty Mechanical and the

inception.

“All the training students receive is practical,” said
Bradford, in the release. “We make it as joblike as possible.
No theory is taught, instructors are on hand to assist when
the apprentice gets stuck, but they are encouraged to solve
their own problems, seek their own solutions.”

One of the first TRAC graduates to participate in the
pilot project was Robert Hansen of Creston. He had just
graduated from the TRAC Electrical specialty in which he
trained to become an industrial electrician.

“I'm glad this opportunity came along when it did,”
Hansen said. “Apprenticeship positions in industry are
virtually non-existant. If I were to apprentice with a

ight/Machinist programs are receiving valuable
training.

Welders repair rusted body and frame components,
fabricate cargo storage compartments or on-board water
tanks. Practicing this type of design and fabrication, welders
can get the experience required to upgrade from toa
welding ticket.

Heavy duty mechanies inspect and recondition motors,
running gear, steering, suspension and brake systems on the
fire engines. Each engine is restored to “as new” condition.
On some of the older model engines this may involve
machining parts if replacement parts are no longer available.

Millwrights recondition the pumping systems on the

fire engines. Each pumper must be able to deliver a

sustained volume at a constant pressure in order to meet the
specifications required for underwriters certificati

Since introducing this concept of reconditioning fire
equipment in October 1984, nine fire engines have been
ordered from the college; five have been delivered.

The future of the simulated after-TRAC projects is
presently uncertain since the original term of the pilot
project has expired, says the college in its release. The
college has applied for an extension that would allow the
program to continue for another three months. As yet a
decision is pending. “College administrators are hopeful
funding will be in place this fall,” says the release.

Quarterly GDP
up .8 per cent

OTTAWA (CP) — Indus.
trial production slipped by
0.2 per cent in the first quar-
ter of the year, the first
quarterly decline since the
economy began recovering
from the 1981-82 recession,
Statisties Canada reported
Tuesday.

Weakness in car and truck
production, a labor dispute in
the rubber and plastics in-
dustry and flat output in the
mining sector were largely
responsible for the decline in
industrial production, which
accounts for about a third of
all economic output in the
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However, strength in the
services-producing industries
was more than enough to off-
set the decline in industrial
production and the weakness
in other goods-producing in-
dustries, and led to a rela.
tively modest 0.8-per-cent,
after-inflation rise in gross
domestic product.

Gross domestic product,
which measures the value of
all goods and services pro-
duced within the country, is
similar to gross national
product, which measures the
value of all goods and ser.
vices produced by Canadians
whether inside or outside the
country.

First quarter GNP figures
released last week showed
the economy expanded by 0.9
per cent during the quarter.

Agency figures show gross
domestic product rose by an
inflation-adjusted 0.8 per
cent during the first quarter
to an annual rate of $127,668
billion from $126.666 billion
in the fourth quarter of 1984.
The figures have also been
adjusted for seasonal varia
tions.

That follows increases of
0.6 per cent in the fourth
quarter of last year, 1.7 per
cent in the third quarter and
1.2 per cent in the second
quarter.

The increase in March, the
final month of the quarter,
was 0.3 per cent, following
gains of 0.2 per cent in both
January and February

In a separate report, the
agency said final estimates
show department store sales
— the fourth largest com.
ponent of retail trade —
registered a 4.2-per-cent gain
last year over 1983, rising to
$11.4 billion.

IQUITOS, PERU (CP)
houses were built on stilts

had TV antennas.

The 38-year-old commu
vacation, relaxing from
Transduction Ltd. from a sm:
thriving cross-Canada corp
Shawley, 32, was at home in
the store.

Today! the partnership

programming only until 10
PARTNER GI
With funds supplied by

thick jungle terrain to sup)
jungle villages.
It wasn't easy.
“Animals were chewing
the signal,” Tyminski recalle

a rainy season that made wor
* substantial part of the year.
Early in 1984,
j satellite dish in the region.

Amazon communities had hi

© programs available in Iqui

satellite dishes of their own.
more were in operation

Today the company has

$15 a month for the service.
“Our subscribers can receive up to 20 channels, not

Ce

only from Lima but from

= Two months ago, TVS sol
* about 250 kilometres downr

Shawley estimates that
million a year in Peru alone.
to expand into neighboring Bi
a score of jobs at its plant in

“In the next two years

practice of foreign companie:
experts and hiring locals on

says. “Stanley is the only

Tyminski noticed three years ago when he flew into this
community in the middle of the jungle w

changing level of the Amazon River.
‘And the second thing was that thousands of them

city of 100,000 about 600 kilometres west of the Peruvian
capital of Lima, running TVS Iquitos, a profitable cable

TV service.
“People were starving for entertainment, yet there
was only one local television channel, offering limited

cameraman and a reporter and began producing his own
shows. Then he built a 300-kilometre cable through the

and elevated the lines off the ground.”
TVS Iquitos also had to cope with a scarcity of skilled
labor and supplies, government upheavals, terrorism and

the company

Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador,” said Shawley.
$10,000 we can install a complete receiver-only
system anywhere in the Amazon region.”

equipment for the South American venture.

work force in Canada, from 30 to 90 employees,” he says
But in Peru the partners have avoided the common

We have hired and trained 60 Peruvians,” Shawley

— The first thing Stanley

as that the
to protect them from the

nications engineer was on
he pressures of building
all computer company into a
oration. His partner, Ron
Mississauga, Ont., minding

is in business in Iquitos, a

p.m.,” Tyminski said
VES FUNDS
his partner, he hired a local

ply the service to isolated

on the cable and disrupted
d. “So we laid heavier cable

rk virtually impossible for a

installed the first

Within weeks, dozens of
eard of the new television
itos and were asking for
By the end of the year, two

3,600 subscribers who pay

neighboring countries like

Id a system to an army base
iver from Iquitos.

there is a market worth $4
He says the company plans
razil and Colombia, creating
Mississauga which supplies

we will probably triple our
s of parachuting in outside
ly as laborers

adian there.”

COMMUNITY NEWS

Recreation news

Forest industry to fund Expo

Cominco

Cominco Ltd. has declared
a quarterly dividend of four
cents a share on the paid-up
common stock of the cor.
poration payable on June 28,
1985 to shareholders of rec.
ord at the close of business on
June 7, 1985.

dividend

A dividend of 81.25 cents a
share on the $3.25 cumulative
redeemable preferred shares
series D of the company has
been declared payable on
July 1, 1985 to holders of
record at the close of busi.
ness on June 10, 1985.

Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212

1401 Columbia Ave.
Sunday Services
8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m
Robson Church
2nd and 4th Sundays
100.m.

Rev. Charles Balfour
365-2271

“ST. PETER LUTHERAN

713 - 4th Street
Worship Service 9 a.m
Sunday School 10:15 a.m.
Pastor Terry Defoe
Office 365-3664
Residence 365-7622
Listen to the Lutheran
Hour — Sunday, 9 a.m
on Radio CKQR

CALVARY BAPTIST

809 Merry Creek Road
Past Fireside Motel
Pastor: R.H. Duckworth
Family Bible Hour

UNITED CHURCH
OF CANADA

2264 - 6th Ave
1% Blocks South of
Community Complex
9:40 a.m. — Singing
10 a.m. — Worship
and Sunday School
Robson: 1st Sun, 7 p.m
3rd Sunday, 10 a.m
Rev. Ted Bristow
365-8337 or 365-7814

9:45 a.m
Morning Worship
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CHURCH OF GOD

11:00 a.
Evening Praise

p.m
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Study & Prayer — 7 p.m
Church 365-3430
Pastor 365-2808

2404 Columbia Avenue
Church School
9:45 a.m
Morning Worship
liam
Pastor Ira Johnson
Phone 365-6762

APOSTOLIC CHURCH
OF PENTECOST

ST. S CATHOLIC
Rev. Herman Engberink
Ph. 365-7143

Saturday Night Mass

Sunday Masses at
8 a.m. and 10 a.m

914 Columb

Ave.

767-11th Ave., Castlegar
Pastor Rev. Ken Smith
Assistont Rev. Solty:
Phone 365-5212
Sunday Morning Services
ot 8:150.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Christion Education
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Family Bible Hour

9:45 a.m
Sunday Worship Service
lla.m.

Bible Study & Prayer
Tues. 7:30 p.m.
Pastor: Tom Mulder
Phone: 365-2281

2605 Columbia Ave.

Sunday School 9:45 a.m
Morning Worship 11 a.m
Home Bible Studies

For information
Call 365-8292

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Phone 365-6317
Pastor: Victor Stobbe
Phone 365-2374
SUNDAY SERVICES
Sunday School 9:45 a.m
Morning Worship 11:00
Evening Fellowship 6:30
Wednesday: Bible Study
and Prayer 7:00 p.m
Thursday
Youth Meeting 6:30
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A great big thanks to all
the people who got involved
last Wednesday in the Great
Participaction Challenge. We
hope you will be sure to stay
physically active and will be
sure to give us a phone call
next year. 1986 will be
Castlegar’s turn! We would
also like to extend our thanks
to Audrey, Susan, Anne,
Bonnie and Denise for being
our travelling instructors.
You all did a super job. To
Lori, John, Susan, Norma,
Fran and Jean for being our
telephone monitors. We
couldn't have managed with-
out you! Special thanks to
CKQR Music Machine who
provided a dynamite sound.
Thanks one and all! Castlegar
will make it to the top — just
wait and see.

Teen Leaders

This summer we are look-
ing for good volunteer teen
leaders to help us with our
summer program. Teén lead-
ers is a unique summer pro-
gram for teens who are an-
xious to volunteer their ser-
vices in return for recreation
leadership training. We pro-
vide you with a quality lead
ership training program and
you provide us with volun.
teer help for our summer
recreation program. Recre
ation is a wonderful career

and volunteer training is a
great place to start. All in-
terested students should fill
out an application form avail-
able at the recreation office
and return it by June 12. A
leadership training workshop
will be held in June. Apply
today so you don't miss out
on your chance to show us
your stuff.
Swim Schedules

The summer swim sched-
ules have now been distribu-
ted to the schools. If you have
not yet received one pick it
up at the recreation office.
Public swim hours at the Bob *
Brandson Pool are as follows:
Monday-Friday 3:30-5 p.m.
and 7-8:30 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday 1:30-4 p.m. and 6:30-8
p.m. Masters swim Monday,
Wednesday and Friday
8:30-9:30 p.m. and Tuesday
and Thursday 8-9 p.m.

Red Cross Lessons

Registration for summer
Red Cross and Royal Life
Swim Lessons starts on
Monday June 17 from 6-7
p.m. in the complex hall.

Water Safety

This week is Red Cross
Water Safety Week. There
are many special activities
taking place at the pool all
week long during public
swimming, so be sure to par
ticipate.

Normal elevation
for Arrow Lakes

The Arrow Lakes are ex
pected to fill to normal ele.
vations this summer al
though the snowmelt runoff
in the Upper Columbia River
basin is expected to be slight
ly below normal, as indicated
by the May 1 snowmelt fore-
cast, according to a B.C. Hy
dro news release.

The lakes are expected to
be between elevations 434.4
metres (1425 feet) and 437.4
metres (1435 feet) by the end
of June. During the summer
months, the water level is

Barber

expected to be between ele-
vations 437.4 metres (1435
feet) and 440.7 metres (1446
feet).

The estimates are based on
studies which assume the
runoff will follow the normal
pattern and will be sup-
plemented by average rain
fall during the forecast per-
iod, says the release.

Estimates are subject to
revision depending on future
weather patterns and gener.
ation requirements at up-
stream projects.

elected

to third term

A Trail Regional Hospital
board trustee has been re.
elected a director of the B.C.
Health Association

Gerald Barber was elected
director-at-large for a third
term at the first monthly
meeting of the 1985-86 board
of the health association held
May 17 in Vancouver

The B.C. Health Associa.
tion is a non-profit organi
zation representing the in.
terests of
health facilities in the prov
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VANCOUVER (CP) — The
provincial gover has
won a promise of almost $4
million from forest industry
companies toward the cost of
exhibits in the British Col-
umbia pavilion at Expo 86,

The pledge of funds come
from the Council of Forest
Industries, its northern Int-
erior lumber sector, the
Cariboo Lumber Manufactur-
ers’ Association and the
Interior Lumber Manufac-
turers’ Association.

Allan Sinelair, council vice-
president, said a company
that has 10 per cent of the
annual wood harvest will be
asked to contribute 10 per
cent of the industry donation
to Expo.

John Kerr, COFI chairman
and also chairman of a special
study group that considered
the industry's Expo partici-
pation, said Monday the plan
to support “the comprehen-
sive provincial exhibit” en-
ables the industry to become
involved in Expo, “while ree-
ognizing the continuing econ-
omie difficulties being experi-
enced by the industry.”

Former
resident
wins title

A former Thrums woman
placed second in the middle-
weight class at bodybuilding
championships in Kamloops
last month.

Colleen Halbaurer, 27, of
Kelowna, is the daughter of
Walter and Lucy Ostoforoff
of Thrums.

Her parents said she near.
ly won the contest held May
25, which had entries mainly
from Interior bodybuilders.

“It was sort of a tie,” said
Mr. Ostoforoff Tuesday. “The
judges told her if she was five
pounds lighter, she would
have had it.

“She had the least train
ing,” he added. “She was only
training for nine months —
the others had been training
for years.”

Halbauer’s second-place
finish followed her winning
the women's middleweight
bodybuilding title in Kelowna
May 4.

That win was a touch and
go situation — the dise jockey
began by playing the wrong
music for Halbauer's routine.
She started to walk off the
stage, but changed her mind
and performed to the unfam.
iliar music, which ultimately
proved to be the right choice.

Halbauer was raised in
Thrums, and attended Tar

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naird Junior Secondary
School and Stanley Hum
phries Secondary School.

She married Dave Halbau
er of Castlegar, and has been
living in Kelowna for about
eight years.

“The forest industry wants
of this once-in-a-

ities, such as a separate in-
dustry pavilion, would have
been more than the industry
could absorb in these tough
times.”

But Art Gruntman, West-
ern Canadian vice-president
of the Canadian Paperwork-
ers Union, was not pleased.

“The companies are telling

us they are in dire straits,
that they have difficulty sell-

ing their di at a fair
profit,” Gruntman said. His
union represents about 8,500
workers.

“By the forest industry
contributing money that they
cannot afford, and that's
what they keep telling us, I
think that’s their way of
propping up the provincial
government.”

Gruntman also said he be-
lieves the companies are con-

Grace Ackney
new director

A Castlegar woman has
been elected a director of the
British Columbia Lung Asso-
ciation.

Lung Association _ presi-
dent D. Stuart Fraser re-
cently announced the election
of Grace Ackney as a director
of the association. Ackney,
representing the Castlegar
Rotary Anns, will serve as
Christmas Seal Committee
chairman for the Castlegar
area during the 1985 Christ-
mas Seal Campaign.

The election of directors
took place at the association's
77th annual general meeting
May 23 in Vancouver. Fifty

delegates from communities
throughout B.C. attended the
meeting which included a
tour of the Pulmonary Re-
search Laboratory at St.
Paul's Hospital, where much
of the province's lung disease
research is conducted. Dele-

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